spud

yes, we play til we feel like going home or pillaging, there are lights, hasnt happened yet, depends how aggressive you play...getting out of bed is a potential source for death.

poopncow

Piracy increases the risk by a factor of Pi^Pi!

poopncow

Anyone up this afternoon/evening?

baldylocks

What time this evening? two,oh,twofour8nine8one,0,one

meb

Twas over at Farragut this afternoon, so I decided to scout out the "Sherwood" polo grounds. Saw nuthin at 14 & K that looks like a park or parking lot or anything suitable for a polo grounds. Only Sherwood in the phone book, is a Sherwood Rec Center in NE.

chimblysweep

sherwood is what we call Lincoln Square. It's the park between 13&14 and I&K. and there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

c'mon out!

ps - Pirates, 1 week till scavenging stupidity. Better stare at a map some.

meb

So with an errant shot, we see water polo-cool.

poopncow

Please save me from an evening of wrenching and wheel building... or come over w pie and beer DVD's and we'll all do some wrenching! Any takers? Sevtreeduoduedreedoodreewonikxnine

joshdcu

Actually, it's Franklin Park, but you can call it "Lincoln Square" if you want.

chimblysweep

dood, josh, you're totally right. franklin, lincoln, all dead white guys important to the oldness of our young nation. i get 'em all screwed up. i believe it's franklin square though...

spud

all i gotta say is: zing

joshdcu

Hey, that's why you can call it what you want... I did check, though, because I thought it was Franklin Square, too, but it is actually Franklin Park (although it is squarish, so, er, tomayto-tomahto, I guess...).

meb

The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
https://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.

Lincoln Square is a former name for the current Lincoln Park, site of the Emancipation Memorial, located on Capitol from 11th to 13th.

Elbeekay

Laps n Cheese! 11 am. Hains Point. Ride backwards if you don't see kids on the corner by the tennis courts.

Thunder boomers beeee dammmmmed!

Really, it looks lovely out. Grey and mushy...fantastic laps n cheese weather really. Beeee therrrrrre.

poopncow

Thanks EBK, BLocks, Rwind & mtbchica for joking with me and providing sanity advice on what to do after being slow motion T-boned. May be it was overly dramatic to have the fire dept and the police on such minor incident, but getting the police report was a good thing. Now to City Bikes for a damage estimate.

daibutsusan73

What happened?

poopncow

What happened: It was really nothing, nothing at all, except that there was a car involve, heck, we had seen worst between pirates

Got in a warm up lap before meeting up with LBK and the rest.

I was riding outboard on the causway (re-versed direction) and saw LBK at the corner of the cause way and the parking lot. So I swung into the ped cross walk, rolling really slow because there were 2 cars at teh stop sign. The first one went , so I started to cross, the second car had the same idea and T-boned me. All was in really slow mo, but since I was clipped in, the bike tumbled with me. As I was lying in the intersection, clipped to the bike, I was glad that there wasn't another car to run me over.

hardly a scrape on me, but the bars got bent and the rear wheel needed a truing. All in all, everything was fine, the guy's insurance left me a voice mail. I think we can laught this one off.

Thanks for all the VM and PM of concern and good cheer!

chimblysweep

glad you're ok, PNC.

so... scavenger hunt this sat! can folks pm, email, or something me so I have an idea of how many folks to expect? again, this is more of a fun, laid back, creative event... not a race!

poopncow

Tuesday's Triangle of Death: A clockwise circumnavigation of the Arlington triangle. 2 - 3 Brew and grub stops along the route. Sherwood, 7PM tomorrow (Tuesday). bring lights and body armour.

Chimbly, please count me in for Sat, may be bringing a friend or 2

chimblysweep

and... in anticipation... i will give the pirates daily hints. things you should be able to locate...

hint 1 (of 5)
the frederick douglass house

joshdcu

[QUOTE=meb]The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
https://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.
[QUOTE]

-I guess that beats my source (Google Maps, which listed it as Frankin Park). -D'oh!

VCURFCwinger14

Whats up pirates... everything going well in the District?

Ric, VA is chillin... slaughterama was the most fun i have ever had on a bike... came close to getting a cycle slaughterama 3 tattoo... and you kids should have seen my bike... i made myself a chopper.. It was very awesome... we drank... jousted...raced chariots... tall bike raced...played drunked tug-o-war, and of course the ever famous DRUNKED BIKE TOSS... it was an overall day of fun and drunk..i mean games... wished you could have been there...

rpc180

PNC, glad to hear you're okay after that. A slow moving car should've seen a slow moving bike - WTF?

Tuesday night's forecasted for rain, is this a rain or (moon)shine event?

BoogerBike

Any word about chain reaction? are they ever going to reopen?

spud

i heard they gave up on bicycles and have started collecting old/broken segways to fix up and sell and teach neighborhood kids how to be segway mechanics and instructors.